Linux Backup via rsync Primer Tutorial
On a Macbook Pro laptop you can use the Mac OS X Time Machine approach to backing up your data, as we talked about with Mac Backup Tutorial. However, a Mac OS X laptop has access to an underlying Linux operating system, that has had great software, including backup software, written for it over many years.
What would be the advantages of using a Linux method of backing up on a Macbook Pro laptop? Can think of …
- Linux processes are not in your face … while you get on with other things in the usual GUI environment
- able to be run at a time of your choosing (via shell scripting with crontab, or at login via a .profile arrangement, perhaps), even interactively … though Time Machine can do some of this too
- the backup can run in the background … though Time Machine can do this too
- the backup process could easily leave you a log
- Linux backups are capable of handling remote backup tasks and scenarios
Today’s slideshow presentation starts off with a photo of our …
- … Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive ℹ hooked up to our Macbook Pro via a black USB lead plugged into one of the Macbook Pro USB ports
- we start up the Macbook Pro application called Terminal in the Utilities folder of the Applications folder
- the Linux command
df -kwill show you the disks and removables (of which our Seagate Backup Plus is one), the latter of which normally get a name starting with “/Volumes/” as for our “/Volumes/Laura”
- we are going, today, to backup the local MAMP server to the Seagate Backup Plus via
rsync -r /Applications/MAMP /Volumes/Laura/as you can see with ℹ (and on)
- now to indicate some success with this to you, we turn the Firefox web browser to Open File one of the backup HTML files (because it is a step too far to think you will be able to run PHP from the backup disk … perhaps tomorrow) … maybe you remember india_map.html from the series of blog postings ending with PHP Geographical Image Map Yet More Google Charts Tutorial ? … you can see with ℹ
- okay, that works, and so now, what about if india_map.html changes back at the Macbook Pro hard disk’s MAMP’s htdocs folder … we make a change to the <h1>India</h1> heading to <h1>India Map</h1>
- so now we are going to incrementally backup the local MAMP server to the Seagate Backup Plus via
rsync -ruv /Applications/MAMP/ /Volumes/Laura/MAMP/as you can see with ℹ
- now to indicate some success with this to you, we turn the Firefox web browser to Open File that same india_map.html HTML file … as you can see with ℹ
Of course, as with all Linux a
man rsync
command ℹℹ helps explain things further, and we hope this tutorial and Linux.com’s useful link is of some help for you too.
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